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Toshio Nishizawa, president of TEPCO, the operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, observes a moment of silence with his workers for the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami victims at the nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Mourners in protective suits and masks gather for prayers for their loved ones who were killed in the last year's earthquake and tsunami, inside the contaminated exclusion zone near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Sunday, March 11, 2012.(AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A girl lights candles in front of a temporary shopping complex in the earthquake and tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the massive disaster that devastated Japan one year ago. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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An open area in front of a temporary shopping complex in the devastated city of Kesennuma, Japan, serves as the site of a candlelit memorial to those killed in the earthquake and tsunami on March, 11, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (left) gives a memorial address as Emperor Akihito (second from right) and Empress Michiko listen during the national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Pool)
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Alexander Semin signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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**FILE** Citizens respond to speakers during a Jan. 11, 2012, community forum in Youngstown, Ohio, to discuss recent seismic activity related to deep wastewater injection wells. (Associated Press)
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Jim Larranaga, in his first year at Miami after a successful stint at George Mason, has the Hurricanes in play for an NCAA bid. (Associated Press)
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Workers dump bags filled with radiation contaminated soil - and sometimes the snow that had covered it - from a neighborhood in Hirono. "We often encounter situations that are not in the manual and wonder if we are doing the right thing," worker Takahiro Watanabe said.
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**FILE** This satellite image shows the military complex at Parchin, Iran, 30 km (about 19 miles) southeast of Tehran on Aug. 13, 2004. (Associated Press/DigitalGlobe/Institute for Science and International Security)
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Brookfield Homes is building 150 single-family homes on 7,000-square-foot sites at the Preserve at Goose Creek in Ashburn. The Yates model, with 3,097 square feet, is priced from $529,990.
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The owners restored much of the home's wood trim and electrified many of the original light fixtures.
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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, Nasteho Hassan Mohyadin, 3, and her mother Farhid Ali Mohamed sit outside their small makeshift tent in a camp for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia. A whistleblowing report by a former Somali government official says that while tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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The dusty streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, are part of the crumbling infrastructure the government is neglecting, despite $58 million in revenue last year. A report by a former Somali government official says that while tens of thousands were suffering and dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services last year. (Associated Press)
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An Israeli diplomat's wife, her driver and two other people in a nearby car were injured when a magnetic bomb is believed to have been attached to the diplomat's car and then detonated. (Associated Press)
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Carolina Hurricanes right wing Chad LaRose celebrates with left wing Jeff Skinner after scoring in the second period at Verizon Center in Washington on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Vincent C. Gray (left), then D.C. mayor-elect, listens on Dec. 16, 2010, as his nominee for fire chief, Kenneth B. Ellerbe, fields a question at a news conference. Some say the city should have conducted a national search to fill the post. (Associated Press)
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Fire Chief Kenneth B. Ellerbe served 27 years in the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department during his first tour of duty in the District, before leaving for Sarasota, Fla. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A 2007 bus crash in Kentucky was blamed on a driver who dozed off. A study by the National Sleep Foundation finds that transportation operators are sleepier than the average American employee, although bus operators are less likely to be suffering from a lack of sleep than pilots, train engineers and truck drivers. (Bowling Green (Ky.) Daily News via Associated Press)
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A firefighter exits the front of a heavily damaged two-story home in Hope Mills, N.C., on Tuesday. A Special Forces soldier died trying to rescue his two young daughters during a fire at the house. Edward Cantrell, Isabella Cantrell, 6, and Natalia Cantrell, 4, perished in the blaze. (Associated Press)
